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Definition: Springtime |
SpringtimeAdjective1. Occurring in or appropriate to the season of spring; "spring rains"; "springtime activities". Noun1. The season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "springtime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. Astronomically, it begins with the spring equinox (around March 21st in the Northern hemisphere, and September 23rd in the Southern hemisphere), and ends with the summer solstice (around June 21st in the Northern hemisphere and December 21st in the Southern hemisphere). Frequently, it is instead counted instead as the whole months of March, April, and May in the Northern hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern hemisphere, especially by meteorologists, and generally by the public.As in summer, the axial tilt of the Earth is toward the Sun, and daylight hours are greater than or equal to 12 hours. The hemisphere begins to warm significantly, causing new plant growth to spring forth, giving the season its name. Snow (if any) begins to melt, and rivers and streams swell with runoff and spring rains. Most flowering plants bloom this time of year, in a long succession beginning even when snow is still on the ground, and continuing into early summer. In normally snowless areas, "spring" may begin as early as February during warmer years, with subtropical areas having very subtle differences, and tropical ones none at all. Subarctic areas may not see "spring" at all until May or even June, or December in the outer Antarctic.
Severe weather most often occurs during the spring, when warm air begins to invade from lower latitudes while cold air is still pushing from the polar regions. Flooding is also most common in and near mountainous areas during this time of year due to snowmelt, many times accelerated by warm rains. In the U.S, Tornado Alley is most active by far this time of year, especially since the Rocky Mountains prevent the surging hot and cold airmasses from spreading westward and instead force them directly at each other. Besides tornados, supercell thunderstorms can also produce dangerously large hail and very high winds, for which a severe thunderstorm warning or even tornado warning is usually issued. Often, spring storms trigger dozens of warnings, one right after the other, often simultaneously along a line hundreds of miles or kilometers long. Even more so than winter, the jet streams play an important role in severe weather in the springtime.
Some of the worst blizzards have occurred in the spring. including the Great Blizzard of 1993, which brought hurricane conditions and then light snow to northern Florida on March 13th, and deposited up to five feet or 1.5 meters of snow in parts of the Appalachian Mountains. A massive springtime "upslope" winter storm in 2003 brought up to eleven feet or 3.3 meters of snow to parts of Colorado and three feet or 90cm to Denver, which gets more snow in March and April (and again in October and November) than during the entire winter (December to February).
Hurricane season also begins in late spring, on May 15th in the northeastern Pacific and June 1st in the northern Atlantic. Prior to these dates, hurricanes are almost unheard of and even tropical storms are exceedingly rare, one of the earliest ever being Tropical Storm Ana in mid-April 2003.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spring (season)."
Synonyms: SpringtimeSynonyms: spring(a) (adj), springtime(a) (adj), spring (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Springtime |
| English words defined with "springtime": rue anemone ♦ spring beauty. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | In springtime, the only pretty ring time, birds sing hey ding, a-ding, a-ding (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl) In springtime, the only pretty ring time, birds sing hey ding, a-ding, a-ding (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl) | |
Lyrics | Springtime in Paris (Runaway; performing artist: Janet Jackson) It's the springtime of my life (Hazy Shade Of Winter; performing artist: The Bangles) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Springtime (1958) The Springtime of the Spirit (1915) That Springtime Feeling (1915) Springtime (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | If springtime on Earth were anything like it will be on Uranus, we would be experiencing waves ... Credit: NASA. |  | Springtime on Norton Sound. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Springtime in Southeast Alaska. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Three WAVES stand by the north side of the Tidal Basin during the springtime cherry blossom season, circa 1943-45. The Jefferson Memorial is in the distance. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Springtime, Germany, 1945. While fruit trees blossom (right), the M.A.N. plant is a scene of desolation. In the distance, outside of the factory's site, are blocks and blocks of windowless and partially unroofed workers' homes damaged by the blast and con. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Springtime in Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Springtime. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sisterhood is blooming. Springtime will never be the same. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Springtime blooms 1" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Flowers." | "Getting warmer" by Martin Kessel Commentary: "This was a springtime shot (Ricoh RDC4200) of a bee warming up, ready to fly off." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Martin Luther | Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. |
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| "Springtime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.08% of the time. "Springtime" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.08% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "springtime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | lente (spring). (various references) | |
Albanian | pranverë (prime, spring). (various references) | |
Arabic | ماء النبع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разцвет (bloom, blow, florescence, flourishing, flowering, heyday, meridian, noon, pride, prime, summer, zenith), младост (adolescence, juvenescence, juvenility, verdure, youth), пролетен сезон (spring tide). (various references) | |
Chinese | 春天 (spring, Springs, Vernal), 春季 . (various references) | |
Czech | jaro (prime, spring), jarní èas. (various references) | |
Danish | forår (spring). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorjaar (spring), lente (spring). (various references) | |
Esperanto | printempo (spring). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vár (spring). (various references) | |
Farsi | فصل بهار (Springtide), جوانی (Youth), شباب (Youth), بهارزندگانی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kevätaika, kevät (spring). (various references) | |
French | printemps (spring). (various references) | |
Frisian | maitiid (spring), maaitiid (spring). (various references) | |
German | Frühling (morning, spring, springtide), Lenz (spring, springtide). (various references) | |
Greek | άνοιξη (spring, springtide). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אביב (ear of barley, spring). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tavasz (prime, spring). (various references) | |
Icelandic | vortími (spring), vor (our, spring). (various references) | |
Irish | Earrach (spring). (various references) | |
Italian | primavera (spring). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | プランクの定数 (Planck's constant, plankton, plant, plant layout, plant renovation, plantation, planter), 春陽 (spring sunshine). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | プランタン , しゅんよう (spring sunshine). (various references) | |
Korean | 춘절. (various references) | |
Manx | Yn Arragh (Spring), traa yn arree, traa arree (equinoctial). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vår (spring). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingtimespray.(various references) | |
Polish | wiosna (spring). (various references) | |
Portuguese | primavera (cowslip, mayflower, primrose, primula, spring). (various references) | |
Romanian | primåvarå (spring), primãvarã (may, morning, spring). (various references) | |
Russian | весна (spring, springtide), весенняя пора. (various references) | |
Scottish | earrach (spring). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proleće (spring). (various references) | |
Spanish | primavera (cowslip, Primrose, spring). (various references) | |
Swedish | vår (our, ours, spring). (various references) | |
Turkish | ilkbahar (spring, springtide, vernal), bahar (flower, may, spice, spring, springtide, youth). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | юність (adolescence, adolescency, juvenility, nonage, youth), весна (prime, spring). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mùa xuân. (various references) | |
Zulu | entwasahlobo (spring). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "springtime": springtimes. (additional references) | |
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"Springtime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Printgine, Springette. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "springtime" (pronounced spri"ngtī'm) |
| 4 | -ng t ī' m | longtime. |
| 3 | -t ī' m | airtime, anytime, bedtime, nighttime, noontime, overtime, pastime, peacetime, ragtime, centime, daytime, dinnertime, downtime, flextime, halftime, lifetime, lunchtime, maritime, mealtime, meantime, schooltime, showtime, sometime, summertime, wartime, wintertime. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-m-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: impingers, premising, priesting, respiting, simpering. | |
-2 letters: emptings, gimpiest, grimiest, gripiest, igniters, impinger, impinges, impregns, imprints, interims, meriting, mingiest, minister, misinter, misprint, mitering, pigments, primines, primings, pristine, remising, resiting, retiming, speiring, spiering, spirting, stingier, striping. | |
-3 letters: emptins, gimpier, gripmen, igniter, ignites, impinge, impings, impregn, imprest, imprint, inspire, interim, iteming, metring, mingier, minster, minters, mintier. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-m-n-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: springtimes, temporising. | |
+2 letters: distempering, misreporting. | |
+3 letters: computerising, extemporising, impersonating, impregnations, premoistening, primogenitors, slipstreaming. | |
+4 letters: primogenitures. | |
+5 letters: misinterpreting, misrepresenting, multiprocessing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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